A practitioner’s journey to secular Buddhism: Sylwia

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From a very early age, Sylwia Plich has always questioned religious orthodoxies. She has moved from her family's Catholicism to Protestantism to Tibetan Buddhism. In 2016, she came across Stephen Batchelor's writings and embraced a secular approach which focuses...

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A practitioner’s journey to secular Buddhism: Sylwia

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